Du hast noch nie das Meer gesehn [English translation]

I was still a child

And had only known the countryside

Around our small town

Thought it looked everywhere like that.

But Mammi told me all about

The many wonders of this world.

Her words are still with me today:

[Refrain:]

⎡You have never seen the sea

So endlessly wide and beautiful.

Only after a thousand dreams

Is there the horizon.

You have never seen the sea,

The ships at anchor

And sails that flutter in the wind

Go see for yourself ...⎦

Then you'll be able to understand the world.

Later I was often

Many a long day

In the house that lie immediately by the shore,

Was totally crazy about

The wind and sand and sea.

And when my child asks:

"Does the world look like this,

Just as beautiful as here at home?"

Then I just say to him,

"Well, listen.

Refrain (x2)

Then you'll be able to understand the world."